There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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